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[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: Outrage is erupting in Charlotte NC after a Black woman who ran a RED LIGHT, hitting a 25-year-old White man out for a run, and DROVE AWAY while he DIED ON THE STREET...

...was sentenced to ONLY 30 DAYS in jail.

Yes, you read that right... THIRTY DAYS.

His name was Lance Sotelo.

Lance grew up in Dalton, Georgia, and was a cross-country MVP in high school.

He came to Queens University of Charlotte and ran cross country and track and field for SIX YEARS.

He was the student body president.

On January 14th, Lance was doing the thing he loved most, he was out for a run in Charlotte NC

At 5:47 in the evening, police say 28-year-old Q'Laundra Hood was ran a red light and she hit him, hard.

...and then she drove away.

She left him in the road and kept going.

Lance Sotelo died right there on the streets of Charlotte.
He never even made it to a hospital.

He didn't have life insurance, his family had to start a GoFundMe just to bury their son.

Hood turned herself in and pleaded guilty to felony hit-and-run and involuntary manslaughter.

And on Tuesday, a courtroom packed with Lance's family and friends watched the judge hand down the sentence.

30 days in jail. And probation.

Thirty days and $765 restitution.

WE DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS!!!!!!!

[ESB @empirestatebud]

@ccctttkkkzzz @VadimYuryev It's the principle of it all! 😅 A $100 price increase is unwanted... but acceptable (if everyone else is paying it too). But a $500 increase (which is essentially 25%)? No, that's excessive. 😐

[Madonna Records @MadonnaRecords]

The Queen of Pop continues to make history! 👑 .@Madonna has just received two additional nominations for Album of the Year and Long-Form Video at the 2026 MTV #VMAs, bringing her impressive total to 13 nominations this year!
https://t.co/QM4rarhlHk

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

In the 1950s, Ella Fitzgerald was not allowed to play Hollywood's most popular nightclub, Mocambo, because of her race.

Marilyn Monroe, who was a big fan, called the owner & told him that if he booked Ella, Marilyn would be there every night - which guaranteed huge press coverage.
He booked Ella and Marilyn was there, front table, every night. Ella said, "After that, I never had to play a small jazz club again. She was an unusual woman - a little ahead of her times. And she didn't know it."

[ESB @empirestatebud]

@MuuMuse Or she could just promote a radio version of the album track with a cool video...

[ESB @empirestatebud]

@MadonnaSpotify @Spotify @Madonna @madonnaHQ @guyoseary @warnerrecords @warnermusic @Rhino_Records I wonder what gave the song a boost...

[ESB @empirestatebud]

@VadimYuryev I ordered the Glacier Pro Max for personal use & the Silver Pro Max to replace my black iPhone 15 Pro I've been using for work.

[ESB @empirestatebud]

@VadimYuryev @Apple Worked after fourth try...

[ESB @empirestatebud]

@tparon https://t.co/RZzR93Vif4

[Céline Dion Crave @popisexhausting]

Female legacy acts with the highest number of solo tracks averaging over 100k daily streams on Spotify

[ESB @empirestatebud]

@VadimYuryev I intended to buy two of the 2TB Pro Max phones this year... but then saw the $500 price increase (which is utterly ridiculous) so will be getting two of the 512GB instead. They could've gotten $4000 from me... but instead will just be getting $3000.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

None of these are based on real people with real accomplishments

[Madonna Records @MadonnaRecords]

.@Madonna's "Danceteria" rises to #10 on the @Billboard Dance Airplay chart!

This marks her 3rd Top 10 hit from "CONFESSIONS II", following the #1 smashes "I Feel So Free" and "Love Sensation."

[ESB @empirestatebud]

@MadonnaRecords @Madonna @billboard @WarnerPromo @warnerrecords She needs a proper video for this song... and a radio edit... and some remixes... to really promote this song.

[🧬Maxpein🧬 @maximumpain333]

Neuroscientists documented something strange: people who become "unnaturally intelligent", they run 5 daily protocols that restructure the brain. Most look too weird to take seriously.

1. Reverse Learning
Read the last chapter of every book first. Your brain calls this a "mystery gap", it switches into active reconstruction mode, firing more neural connections. This is how prodigies read. From the answer backward.

2. Theta State Immersion
Also called Sensory deprivation thinking
20 minutes daily in complete darkness with earplugs. Within 8-12 minutes, brainwaves drop into theta, the state Einstein called "combinatory play." Breakthroughs appear from nowhere. Not because you thought harder because you stopped blocking the signal.

3. Neural Cross-Wiring/Pattern interruption - Write with your non-dominant hand 10 minutes daily. Neuroscience calls this "contralateral activation." You force new pathways unused since infancy. Result: dominant thinking sharpens, you've broken the loop you were trapped in.

4. Cross-Domain Collision/Strategic Confusion.
Study something unrelated to your field weekly. Medieval poetry Monday. Quantum physics Wednesday. The brain begins "conceptual bridging" — connecting impossible dots into insights no specialist sees. This is how every genius thought. Not deeper. Wider.

5. Cognitive Inversion/Argument reversal
Defend the opposite of what you believe 15 minutes daily. Out loud. You're building "steel-manning" holding two opposing truths without collapsing. Your original position becomes unshakeable because you've seen every angle used to attack it.

Here's what no one tells you: intelligence isn't fixed. It's a frequency your nervous system tunes into or blocks. Most block it with the same 3 mental loops on repeat. Break the loops, and the intelligence was always there waiting.

The truly awake aren't smarter. They've stopped interfering with the signal.

[Collin Cleary @collin_cleary]

I spent 30 years in academia. Here are my observations about my students. Toward the end, I was teaching “Gen Z." These students combined ignorance with strident moral certainty. They seemed to have had no general education at all, and lacked the most basic knowledge of history, even recent history. They were immature and emotionally fragile.
Many could not handle criticism, no matter how sugar coated. It took very little to reduce them to tears – or to send them into a fit of narcissistic rage. They were shockingly bereft of intellectual curiosity, and many gave the impression of having no internal life at all.
I'll share more observations later.

[QINTELPRO @QINTELPRO_]

The day before 9/11, the stock market processed approximately 45 times the average daily trading volume in put options (bets that a stock will fall) on American Airlines and United Airlines - the two carriers whose planes were hijacked.

Simultaneously, call options (bets that a stock will rise) were placed on defense contractors - companies whose stock prices would surge after a terrorist attack.

The SEC investigated the unusual trading. Their findings were classified.

The 9/11 Commission addressed the put options in a single paragraph, concluding that the trades were 'consistent with legitimate trading strategies' and had 'no connection' to al-Qaeda.

The Commission did not ask whether the trades had connections to anyone other than al-Qaeda.

Convar - the German-Israeli firm recovering WTC hard drives - found evidence of 'suspicious financial transactions' in the hours before the attack. These findings were also classified.

Someone knew. Someone traded on that knowledge. The investigation was designed to look at only one possible source - al-Qaeda - and when that source was cleared, the investigation stopped.

The financial foreknowledge of 9/11 has never been publicly explained. The evidence has never been released.

[Alexs James @Alexs_jame]

Epstein tried everything to get Elon to his island, even using Reid Hoffman and Bill Gates to get to him

Elon refused multiple times and eventually blocked his emails at the server level permanently

So, in retaliation, Epstein and Gates launched a massive campaign to short Tesla, betting heavily to try and bankrupt the company (Gates lost billions to his madness)

And then with the Biden administration, launched massive nonsensical lawsuits against SpaceX and Tesla

All because Elon pushed for the Epstein files to be released to expose the most heinous crimes committed against innocent children and put those responsible behind bars

Elon is the major reason the Epstein files are finally public

[🎸 Rock History 🎸 @historyrock_]

After a Queen concert in Los Angeles, Michael Jackson met with the band backstage. The singer, a fan of the group, gave them some specific advice.

He recommended that they release “Another One Bites the Dust” as a single. Some members of the band, especially Roger Taylor, doubted that the funk song would work as a single.
Queen took his advice.

The song became a massive hit, number one in the United States and the best-selling single of their career.